Dr. Rachel Quintas is a clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy for adults, teens, and couples who are seeking help with depressed mood and anxiety, relationship difficulties, professional and academic struggles, and issues concerning different facets of identity. She focuses particularly on interpersonal and systemic trauma, mistrust, and the process of building safety and intimacy. Dr. Quintas is well-versed in dynamics of sexual and gender identity and in working with LGBTQ+ individuals.

Dr. Quintas completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Long Island University - Brooklyn and her predoctoral internship at Bellevue Hospital Center, where she worked in the inpatient, outpatient, and psychiatric emergency departments, as well as the World Trade Center Survivor program. There she developed a therapy group for individuals who needed regular contact with the healthcare system, yet recognized the tension of power imbalances and systemic injustices in their treatments. Dr. Quintas’s doctoral research focused on therapists’ wish to see themselves and their institutions as fair and “good,” and the impact of this thinking on their patients who have experienced discrimination. She is currently a UN Representative with the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, as well as a primary care psychologist for NYC Health + Hospitals at Gotham Health in Bushwick.

Dr. Quintas’s work is humanistic, relational, and systems-focused, with a recognition that (in the words of Harry Stack Sullivan), “we are all much more simply human than otherwise.” She values warmth, transparency, and the uniqueness of each individual - and therefore the uniqueness of each person’s therapy journey - who enters her office.